Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

The planet is estimated to be about six per cent larger than Earth and follows a roughly 355-day orbit, according to the ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

At this time last year, the scientists working on Kepler, NASA’s fantastically successful planet-hunting space telescope, were ecstatic. The probe, launched in 2009, had originally been given just ...

On March 7, 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope took off from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta II rocket. For almost a decade, the space telescope expanded our understanding of the universe before it ...

Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back. Engineers ...